I Like it Like That: More Musings on Portuguese

As I enter my ninth month here, almost every day I learn a new idiom or amusing phrase in Portuguese. Here are some highlights:

-in Brazil they use (!) as a punctuation mark that means “look how crazy that is.” Ex: “United charged me $200 because my bag was 2lbs overweight (!)”

-the idiom for “to kill two birds with one stone” is “matar 2 coelhos com uma cajada” or “kill two rabbits with one wooden staff.” This seems much more violent to me.

-the antiquated way of saying “FML” in Portuguese is “macacos me mordam!” or “****, monkeys bit me!”